Organized by: Prof. Lu Lu

Events During the 2009 Fall Semester

August 2009

September 2009

   Wednesday, September 2nd

First Day of Class

   Monday, September 7th

Labor Day

   Thursday, September 17th

Andrew Smith, University of Maryland, College Park

TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy with Milagro and HAWC

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Thursday, September 24th

Paul Hatchell, Shell International E&P, Research and Development, Houston, TX

Special Colloquium

Time-lapse seismic monitoring of reservoir deformation

4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin (tentative) (coffee & cookies at 3:30), hosted by Balantekin

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   Monday, September 28th

Yum Kippur

October 2009

   Thursday, October 8th

Roxanne Springer, Duke University

Parity violation in low energy NN interactions

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Thursday, October 15th

Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut

The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Vacuum Pair Production

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Thursday, October 22nd

Dan McKinsey, Yale University

The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Karsten Heeger

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   Friday, October 23rd

Brian Connolly, University of Pennsylvania

Quantifying the Unknown in Astronomy: A Bayesian Approach

2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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   Thursday, October 29th

Glennys Farrar, New York University

The low-down on Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays: experimental results and theoretical puzzles

4:00 pm; 4274 Chamberlin, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff

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November 2009

   Thursday, November 5th

Richard Lebed, Arizona State University

The Baryon Resonance Spectrum and the 1/Nc Expansion

4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Monday, November 9th

Markus Ackermann

The first year of the Fermi Large Area Telescope in space

2:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle

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   Thursday, November 12th

Paolo Desiati, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Galactic cosmic ray anisotropy : origin and implications and the role of IceCube

4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Friday, November 13th

Mu-Chun Chen, U. C. Irvine

Lepton) Flavor Violation in SUSY GUT and Randall-Sundrum Models

2:30 pm; 2301 Sterling Hall, hosted by Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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   Thursday, November 26th

Thanksgiving

December 2009

   Thursday, December 3rd

Naoko Kurahashi, Stanford

Acoustic Detection of Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos

4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Teresa Montaruli

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   Thursday, December 10th

Andre Fuzfa, GAMASCO, University of Namur (FUNDP) and LUTH, Observatory of Paris.

Dark Energy and Dark Matter from Gravitational Symmetry Breaking

4:00 pm; 5310 Chamberlin, hosted by Sonny Mantry

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   Tuesday, December 15th

Last Day of Class